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  • Fictions of Radical Life Extension

    Living Forever from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War

    by James Aaron Green ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life
    In this major new study, James Aaron Green provides the first account of literary thought experiments published from 1878 to 1918 that speculate on the prospect of radically longer lives.Green argues that these fictions helped negotiate the emergent experiences and meanings of age and aging during years when long-established norms were being eroded and supplanted. By recovering fictions by lesser ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Sensation Fiction and Modernity

    The Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain

    by James Aaron Green ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mobility, Green contends that sensation fiction also depicts modernity in the form of intellectual and moral discontinuity. Through closely historicist readings of novels by Wilkie Collins and Mary ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

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  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

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  • Laughter and Ridicule

    Towards a Social Critique of Humour

    by Michael Billig ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    `From Thomas Hobbes′ fear of the power of laughter to the compulsory, packaged "fun" of the contemporary mass media, Billig takes the reader on a stimulating tour of the strange world of humour. Both a significant work of scholarship and a novel contribution to the understanding of the humourous, this is a seriously engaging book′ - David Inglis, University of AberdeenThis delightful book tackles ... Read more

    $131.19 CAD

  • Populating the Novel

    Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life

    by Emily Steinlight ...
    From the teeming streets of Dickens's London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic shift in British political thought. She shows how the ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Precocious Children and Childish Adults

    Age Inversion in Victorian Literature

    by Claudia Nelson ...
    Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period.Though far from ubiquitous, the terms “child-woman,” “child-man,” and “old-fashioned child” appear often enough in Victorian ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • Rewriting the Victorians

    Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender

    Edited by Linda M. Shires ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It analyzes the struggle for ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society

    by Sue Zemka ...
    Series Book 77 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Sudden changes, opportunities, or revelations have always carried a special significance in Western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments, events ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real

    Conventions and Ideology

    by Audrey Jaffe ...
    Critical discussions of the Victorian realist novel tend to focus on its vivid representations of everyday life. The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real proposes that the genre is founded in desire, moving the novels not towards a shared reality but rather toward distinct fantasies: dreams of the real. Rather than simply redefine Victorian realism or propose a new canon for it, The Victorian Novel ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain

    Victorian and Edwardian Inflections

    Edited by Maria Bachman, Albert Pionke ...
    Series series Among the Victorians and Modernists
    At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays to illuminate the historically and intellectually complex relationship between literary studies and sociology in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. During the ongoing emergence of what Thomas Carlyle, in "Signs of the Times" (1829), pejoratively labeled a new "Mechanical Age ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle

    The Brutal Tongue

    by Christine Ferguson ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siècle. Focusing on a variety of literary and non-literary texts, the book maps out the dialogue between the Victorian life and social sciences most involved in the study of language and the literary ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Narrative and Its Nonevents

    The Unwritten Plots That Shaped Victorian Realism

    by Carra Glatt ...
    Series series Victorian Literature and Culture Series
    This book is about what does not happen in the Victorian novel. The description may sound absurd, yet consideration of alternatives to a given state of affairs is crucial to our understanding of a novel. Plot emerges out of the gradual elimination of possibilities, from the revelation, on the first page of a work, that we are in nineteenth-century London and not sixteenth-century Paris, to the ... Read more

    $43.49 CAD